🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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It sucks because you have to pay and because the party is empty.
Yeah, and you have to love that the parent made it suck worse with threats of legal action. If you couldn't afford the party, you shouldn't have thrown it.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teen-plans-marry-dad-romantic-reunion-article-1.2084306
Header:
Great Lakes teen says she plans to marry father in New Jersey after recently reuniting, losing her virginity to him
Subheader:The 18-year-old told New York Magazine that her decision to marry her once estranged biological father and have children with him follows a near two-year love affair which remains secret to her mother.
Caption below the large image:An 18-year-old Great Lakes teen, not pictured, told New York Magazine that she plans to marry her once estranged, biological father in New Jersey after their recent reunion.
First paragraph:A Great Lakes teen's love for her father is allegedly taking her down the aisle — with him as her groom.
Second paragraph:In an explosive tell-all interview with New York Magazine, an 18-year-old dishes on how a rekindled relation with her once estranged biological dad led to a near two-year love affair, and plans to wed and have children in New Jersey.
These guys are paid by the word, aren't they?
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, it's normal now to organize the party and for every child's parents to pay for it
That's not the impression I got from this particular article - it was a fine for that child not turning up, not a charge every child (or rather their parents) whether they turned up or not paid
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TIL that you cannot sway articles of faith with arguments of logic.
True, and that applies to politics and Science even more so than religion.
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True, and that applies to politics and Science even more so than religion.
You find faith in a lot of funny places.
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TIL that you cannot sway articles of faith with arguments of logic. Sorry @abarker; things got out of hand yesternight, I should have behaved better.
You were one of the well behaved ones. No worries.
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These guys are paid by the word, aren't they?
It was after 12 years of separation that the teen says a Facebook friend request led to the pair reuniting at the age of 17.
They're not very good words. Or time travel is involved.
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They're not very good words. Or time travel is involved.
well they could have been separated at age 5... that's creepy as hell if so, but it is feasible.
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One half of "the pair" fathered the other. So for them to be within five years of each other makes him set the new record for youngest father. Why are antecedents so hard for some people?
It was after 12 years of separation that the teen says a Facebook friend request led to the pair reuniting when the girl was 17.
is different than
It was after 12 years of separation that the teen says a Facebook friend request led to the pair reuniting when they were 17.
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I'm
guessinghoping the first is the intended meaning.
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Why are antecedents so hard for some people?
ooooh. @accalia sees it now.
that's just bad grammar.
apparently good grammar is a barrier to tabloid news articles
either that or they can't afford editors. i'm praying for that one because it means they might be going out of business.
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More likely, editing is a barrier to getting your story out before everyone else. Editing is also a barrier to having part-time interns copy-pasting a bunch of Twitter statuses and calling it a news article.
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well yes.
i should have written it: (Creepy as hell)2
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Also, I know society is changing its attitudes and laws regarding who can marry whom, but has New Jersey gone so far as to legalize marriage between a parent and child‽ 'Cause otherwise this whole thing ain't really gonna happen.
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New Jersey gone so far as to legalize marriage between a parent and child‽
DO NOT WANT!DO NOT WANT!
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has New Jersey gone so far as to legalize marriage between a parent and child‽
More likely, it was never outlawed. Generally things in the U.S. are by default legal unless a law states otherwise. This story could be what their legislature needs to finally get it on the books.
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Most (I think all; we've had this discussion before, and Wikipedia has an article about it, but I CBA to check at the moment) states have laws that specify whether first-cousins can marry. It's hard to believe (but not impossible; a lot of legislators are stupid) that someone would write a law outlawing first-cousin marriage without also including a prohibition on relatives closer than first cousins.
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The article said it does not outlaw sex but does outlaw marriage between that close kin.
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The article said
Reading the article is a barrier to
wild speculationInternet pontificating.
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Gregory Plitt, the fitness model and reality TV star killed Saturday, was filming video for his website, trying to get action shots, when he tripped and was struck by an oncoming train, friends said.
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"He wanted to push things to the limit," said a weeping Stejskal in an interview Monday. "He's just like Superman."
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The New-52 Superman would do that, I bet. Probably encourage little kids standing nearby to hug moving trains, too. What a dick.
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push things to the limit
fearless attitude toward life
nothing he couldn't do
That's why Plitt's death came as a shock
It doesn't sound to me like it should be all that surprising; that sort of attitude tends to be inconducive to a long lifespan.
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TIL that you cannot sway articles of faith with arguments of logic. Sorry @abarker; things got out of hand yesternight, I should have behaved better.
I concur. My apologies @abarker.
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I concur. My apologies @abarker.
No worries. Believe it or not, I've dealt with worse than you and @Mikael_Svahnberg dished out. The worst was probably being ganged up on by a Baptist minister and some Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Those seem like unlikely allies...
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As long as they're not turning up at my door.
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Agreed.
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Those seem like unlikely allies...
Since I was in Nebraska at the time, I was lucky there weren't any RLDS[1] present. They might have joined either side of the conversation.
[1] Members of The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, now known as the Community of Christ.
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The worst was probably being ganged up on by a Baptist minister and some Jehovah's Witnesses.
@abarker, a Baptist minister and some Jehovah's Witnesses walk into a bar....
Filed under: Is this some sort of joke
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@ben_lubar
walks into a barEditor note: sorry, bars aren't invented yet.
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That felt like a rickroll...
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Electric sort-of-skates. Just seems silly to me.
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That first bulletpoint sounds suspiciously like "give me all of your users' passwords"
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Where "enhanced" means "we put this graphic about how we're holding the president accountable by fact-checking stuff on the left side of the screen for the whole video without actually doing any of that stuff" and "presented by house republicans" means "with commentary by the worst people from Twitch and YouTube" and "in real-time" means "20 minutes late to an internet show".
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Which raises the question: if you were to sell [actually-] homeopathic alcohol to a minor, could you be charged
In Australia a drink with less than 1% ABV is a soft drink.
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In Australia a drink with less than 1% ABV is a soft drink.
In Communist Australia, alcohol drink you.
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In Australia a drink with less than 1% ABV is a soft drink.
Do you put ice into it to make it (progressively) into a hard drink?
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That sounds strangely familiar ...
@boomzilla said:http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gregory-plitt-killed-train-superman-20150119-story.html
>Gregory Plitt, the fitness model and reality TV star killed Saturday, was filming video for his website, trying to get action shots, when he tripped and was struck by an oncoming train, friends said.
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"He wanted to push things to the limit," said a weeping Stejskal in an interview Monday. "He's just like Superman."
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Did a search for "outrun" and "train". Nothing. STILL nothing.
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Electric sort-of-skates. Just seems silly to me.
Not quite up to Wile E. standards, but kind of neat.
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Once again, Performance Art.
It's difficult to express how awful this is, but perusing this video (which no one should do) (SFW, but terrible, awful, may take your will to live) gives you an idea:
Performance actions may include: exchanging too many wigs, champagne beer bong, oral fruit play, listening to early Marilyn Manson, binding breasts in tape, puking on an airplane, kissing with black lipstick, crying to Beyoncé, being a mermaid, spitting in your mouth, wishing on stars, having visions of the underworld.
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Yellow-shirt there needs a good bitch-slap, and to grow the fuck up.
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Pulling up to what looks like an abandoned house for a "date"... and still going in:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2t0aon/tifu_by_going_to_a_girls_house_on_my_first_ever/
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Yellow-shirt there needs a good bitch-slap, and to grow the fuck up.
Seriously. I skimmed 10-15 seconds of the first minute or two, and it seems to be a anti-paean to Mommy and Daddy.